Unity 2D Game Developer Course Farming RPG (Udemy.com)

This course was very informative and in detail I loved it. I feel much more capable of creating a game now that I've got the knowledge gained from this course. If you've ever wanted to make a farming game like harvest moon/stardew valley I'd recommend this course. I also found Rob very quick to respond to questions I had during my going through the courses, which is great considering how many years it's been. The only reason I didn't give this the full 5 stars is because it's fallen a bit behind newer versions of Unity and a few of the functions are legacy or not even supported and I had to research work arounds. I left comments on couple of the courses with the fixes I found that were not already added in the comments, so if you do end up using this course and are stumped look in the comments for help. I'd love to see more added to this course or perhaps a new "advanced course" with more advanced features such as crafting, animals, cutscenes, events, NPC story and friendship added such as well as updates in unity such as the new input system or any other things added in recent years to unity that might be cool. I'll be keeping an eye out for any courses Rob releases.

Excellent course. The author perfectly explains every aspect. The number of topics covered is very large. If I had to point out any flaws, they would be one: The author made the project earlier and refined it to the final version. Then, together with us, during the course, he writes it together with us - at the beginning. Over time, it comes down to copy/paste/tell. This is also an advantage - because we do not get lost, we know the right path. But for a beginner, it means much, much more time spent on the course. Sometimes a lesson that lasts one hour in the course - in reality turns into a whole day. Therefore, please reserve many times more time than the time of the course itself. Nevertheless, this flaw does not affect my assessment, because the author did a great job and deserves the maximum mark. I did the entire course in 2024 in version 2021.1.7f - everything worked as it should. The only issue was in last bonus section on LighingControll class on FadeLightRoutine method. while (Mathf.Approximately(currentLightIntensity, targetLightingIntensity)) simply did not worked - infinity loop. I had not time to find why, so I’ve wrote my own solution, which works: float difference = 1f; while (difference > 0.01) { currentLightIntensity = Mathf.MoveTowards(currentLightIntensity, targetLightingIntensity, fadeSpeed * Time.deltaTime); yield return null; difference = Mathf.Abs(currentLightIntensity - targetLightingIntensity); } currentLightIntensity = targetLightingIntensity; BTW... I reommending secod course of that Autor: Build a sophisticated 2D Roguelike Dungeon Shooter game Which I've finished also - before that one ;)

I really can't recommend this course enough! I have taken a few courses here on Udemy by now, but this is BY FAR my favorite instructor! The lessons are very clearly structured and thought out. You can tell that Rob cares about his students. Unlike other instructors, he takes the time to answer questions, that's something that I sadly have not experienced in other courses. To those who got copy-and-paste-answers: maybe you shoud put a little more effort in this and at least look for similar questions in the questions-section. Rob, and also some of the students try hard to help other students with their problems, but if someone posts a question like "It is not working! help!!!" and evidently has tried nothing of the recommended steps to solve the problem on their own... what answers can you expect?? In my personal experience, every question I had was answered fast and with great care. The course teaches not only design patterns and c#-fundamentals like singletons, delegates, interfaces, inheritance and so on, but also shows you how to set up a larger scope project in a maintainable and clean way. Everything is build to be easy and safe to expand. When I started this course, I was really worried, about how to implement further functionality to this prototype, without additional courses, but I have learned so incredible much in these lessons, that I have not yet encounterd a single functionality that I was not able to implement on my own. For me personally this was the right mix of type-along-lectures and copy-and paste lectures: In the early lectures, I appreciated the longer explanations, in the later lectures I honestly was glad to not have to watch hours of typing. And I was even more happy about the fact, that I could copy and paste whole codeblocks instead of typing on my own. I get it - some people prefer to type everything out, but for me writing never really taught me much. I learn way more efficient by thinking along instead of typing along, so I liked this approach alot. This course also introduced me to Sourcetree, so what I did was I set up a repository for my own project and everytime I finnished a section of the course, and felt like I wanted my own game to behave a little differently, I pushed everything in my repo, and fiddled around with the code until I got it working like I wanted it to. This definetely helped me a lot on understanding how exactly the systems work. I would like to recommend to try this approach to anyone who feels bothered by the copy and paste approach. So: Copy and paste first, take advantage of the fact, that you don't have to type along and, really focus on understanding what the code does, and THEN jump into action by refactoring the code to your liking (But you should propably play it save and work in a test-copy of your project. Some of these changes might bite you later, especially if you are not so confident in your bugfixing abilities yet). That's just my take on some of the more critical reviews... On the course in general, there really is not much more to say, than what plenty other users have already said. This is an extremly well structured and incredibely extensive in content. I think this probably might be the most complete course, not only on farming rpgs, but on topdown 2D games in general. So I'd not only recommend this to fans of Stardew Valley, but for aspiring 2D-gamedevs in gerenal.

This course is WELL worth the money. It's hard to eloquently quantify why that is (especially since previous reviewers have done an amazing job of doing so themselves), but I'm going to try to speak directly to my experience. If you just want my final opinion scroll to the last paragraph! :) I'm a hobbyist coder, having left my time as a code jockey/web developer behind to become a product owner in charge of development. I very much missed coding and the thrill you get from writing a line of code and seeing the result DO something. I took a bit of time to find the right course, doing a few free lessons here and there to learn unity. Then I decided it would be fun to do a stardew valley type hobby game and see what I could churn out in my spare time. When I found this course I was VERY wary of how "old" the course is. I was worried about the older version of unity, I was worried about the old unity input system, I was worried about a lot of things! Nonetheless I took the plunge and bought the course and began my journey. Firstly, the dated version of unity and the course was not really an issue. I have built out this game twice now in a 2021 version and 2022 version of Unity, and both worked perfectly fine with VERY little refactoring here and there. Secondly, I did experiment with the new input system on my 2022.x unity build and though it did require a good bit more refactoring, it was totally possible and not outside the realm of possibility. For what it's worth, I opted to stick with the older input system, for many of the reasons Rob (instructor) has outlined in the Q&A. And speaking about the Q&A, what a wonderful wealth of information! Not only did I find a ton of ways to refactor and expand the code from the course, but I also went out on a limb to ask a question. I was 100% not expecting to receive a response from anyone, nonetheless Rob (instructor). Low and behold I got an answer within 24 hours not only explaining the answer to my question but giving code examples. Those who have purchased courses on udemy before know how RARE that is. Does this course finish with a game that you could release on steam? No....not really. Does this course get you started in just about all the right directions to build out something that COULD be self published? Absolutely. Will there be a ton of things you will need to add to your game later to make it fully immersive like a Stardew Valley or Subnautica? Of course....combat system, store fronts, upgrades, crafting, etc. BUT, if you want a jump start on all of that with an amazing foundation to set you up for success, this course will do that for you. In conclusion, buy this course if you have the time and want to learn from an extremely patient and informative instructor. One note I will say is that I played the lectures at about 1.2x to 1.5x speed because the lectures seemed to be played at a slower speed? Probably by request of a previous student, but that's alright with me. Thank you again to Rob for putting together such an amazing course and if you ever put out another course expanding functionality, I'll be FIRST in line.

As a professional software developer with a bit of Unity familiarity (previously took an introductory course), I felt this course was very well suited to me and contained a staggering amount of content. The focus on code has provided me with a great library of design patterns. There are no "homework" exercises, which means that for some of the more complicated systems, such as animation overrides and crops/tilesets, you'll probably have to run through them several times to fully understand. I found it much easier to reinforce the learning by making small changes, adding code comments, and noting potential improvements as I went through it. This is the key to getting the most out of this course. It's an incredible reference but requires some self-imposed initiative and programming skills. To future students of the course: if you're an experienced dev, skip over the bits on SourceTree and git GUI. A simple terminal works just fine. There's no need to run two instances of unity as the author suggests. I simply created my own branches for each chapter, and pulled in code from the finished project's GitHub repo as needed. Also, I found watching the lectures at 1.25x or even 1.5x speed at parts to be the perfect pace, as the author does narrate rather slowly. I do wish the author offered more in the way of next steps, e.g., animation, 2D graphics, game design elements (quests, dialog, etc). All of the art assets are prepackaged in the course. The course is extremely long as is, so the omission of these topics is understandable, but I would love to see 1) A suggested reading list/additional resources and 2) brief outlines, including skeleton code snippets, on how to implement the missing features of the game (e.g., crop watering), as exercises for the student.

I did learn quite a lot. I don't necessarily agree with some of the choices the instructor made. Some parts are really overwritten and could be simplified a lot. I wasn't a fan of him just cut and pasting the code in and then talking it through, I found it hard to keep up with that at times and towards the end I was finding my scripts compiled but didn't work and when you've modified 5 different scripts and written a few hundred lines of code, going back and finding the one tiny error you made was tedious. I was particularly making errors when he starts "peeking" another function while you're in the middle of typing out the main function or he's flicking back to show you something in unity or on his slides so the code you're trying to copy keeps going away. I realise I didn't need to type it all by hand I could have just copied it from the repo but I personally find just copy pasting code and then listening to someone talk about it does not really help me learn. I understand it all at the time but there's not the same retention as if I've typed it myself. I've done multiple courses, including intermediate ones and I did learn stuff I didn't already know so there is good material but it was a slog at times.

If you are an experienced software developer in other areas and you're looking for a deep dive into game development patterns and practices, look no further. This course was by far the best course I found for people at this skill level that are wanting to get into gamedev The course fully develops a number of non-trivial systems, presenting a number of design patterns and practices that are leveraged repeatedly over different systems. By the end of the course, these practices are ingrained in your brain and "how do I develop system X for my game" becomes basically an exercise of pattern matching against some of the practices we've seen here, an applying/expanding on them. Yes, there are places where coding practices/style may not be aligned with what I'd consider optimal at times, but that's natural for all courses and code bases. Other than that, could not recommend this course further. Thanks a lot, Rob! Looking forward to see what comes next.

The course is pretty good...

there is a very professional feel and look to this course. its an advance course but the instructor really helps the process by visually representing what he is trying to teach through slides.
I'm pretty sure I would feel more confident in making my own game after finishing this course. thanks a bunch Rob!

Really good course, i would definitely recommend it to anyone.

One of the best course for intermediate level Unity development. As a software developer myself, I can tell that the way some of the other Unity courses taught is not 'correct', put everything in one class or bodging codes to get it working won't pass code review if that's in a real production environment. But this course is different, I know the way this course organises code is following the correct standard. Really learnt a lot from this course!
If there is anything to improve, I would say the course didn't cover dialogue system, or quest system, and taught very little on how to create the complex animator. However consider this course is already 50 hours long, these topics could be included in future courses and I will definitely buy it.
Will come back Udemy and check if Rob got any new course released often.

The teacher is easy to follow and the course has great pacing. I don't feel great about copy/pasting everything over from the original documents however this is my favorite 2D course I've taken so far.